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Lars P. Syll
Personal blog · larspsyll.wordpress.comeconomics
Lars P. Syll writes LARS P. SYLL, a personal blog at larspsyll.wordpress.com about economics. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lars P. Syll's blog for its critiques of mainstream economics, including its formal modelling, econometrics, and the loanable funds view of banking. Commenters cite posts as support for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Non-ergodic, realist and relevant economics
What Hacker News says?
"Modern mainstream economics is sure very rigorous — but if it’s rigorously wrong, who cares? Instead of making formal logical argumentation based on deductive-axiomatic models the message, we are better served by economists who more than anything else try to contribute to solving real problems. " https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/why-economics-is-...
Comment linking /2020/07/28/why-economics-is-an-impossible-science/
on “The Haskell Elephant in the Room”Submitted What is ergodicity? (2016) as a story · 155 points
HN discussionTo add, I like https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/
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on “A New Way to Learn Economics”Submitted How to re-establish trust in economics as a science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome would beg to differ https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/econometrics-a-cr...
Comment linking /2021/04/06/econometrics-a-critical-realist-perspective/
on “Unsolved problems in economics”Submitted Paul Samuelson – a case of badly invested intelligence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are morons everywhere, but humans are generally correct in the aggregate. See examples here: https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/the-wisdom-of-cro... Just slap a captcha on there or something or avoid bots
Comment linking /2013/09/17/the-wisdom-of-crowds-and-bean-jar-experiments/
on “Huawei Mate 30 phones launch without Google apps”Submitted What Is Ergodicity? (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAccording to the convergence criteria, yes. Those criteria pretty much ensure the inability of the Euro to function properly though [1] Domestically, not really. Internationally, it depends on a number of factors. [2] [1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al... [2] https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/the-balanced-budg...
Comment linking /2017/07/18/the-balanced-budget-paradox/
on “European Union Debt by Country”Submitted Cutting wages – the wrong medicine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe confusion is that this isn't how banks work. But most people believe that this is how banks work. More than that, most people have no idea how lending really works. They believe the bank is literally lending their savings out. So if no one saves, there's no lending. Even some economists believe a more complex version of this. https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/the-loanable-fund...
Comment linking /2014/09/21/the-loanable-funds-fallacy/
on “A linguistic glitch tricks us into thinking bank deposits are deposited in banks”Submitted Paul Romer’s endogenous growth theory – a very short introduction as a story · 1 points
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